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Patriot Games

The book Patriot Games was made into the movie Patriot Games.

Which one did you like better, the book or the movie?  There are 4 votes for the book, and 4 votes for the movie.

Book details for Patriot Games

Patriot Games was written by Tom Clancy. The book was published in 1987 by `Collins. More information on the book is available on Amazon.com.

Tom Clancy also wrote The Hunt for Red October (1984), Clear and Present Danger (1989) and The Sum of All Fears (1991).

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Movie details for Patriot Games

The movie was released in 1992 and directed by Phillip Noyce, who also directed Dead Calm (1989) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). Patriot Games was produced by Paramount. More information on the movie is available on Amazon.com and also IMDb.

Actors on this movie include Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch, James Fox, Samuel L. Jackson, Polly Walker (II), J.E. Freeman, James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Alex Norton, Hugh Fraser, David Threlfall, Alun Armstrong, Berlinda Tolbert, Hugh Ross, Gerald Sim, Pip Torrens and Thomas Russell.

 

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Let's see--he's been Han Solo in three films and Indiana Jones in three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new continuing character in Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan? In this film, directed by Phillip Noyce, Ford picked up the baton when A... Read More
Let's see--he's been Han Solo in three films and Indiana Jones in three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new continuing character in Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan? In this film, directed by Phillip Noyce, Ford picked up the baton when Alec Baldwin, who played Ryan in The Hunt for Red October, opted for a Broadway role instead. In this film, Ryan and his family are on vacation when Ryan saves a member of the British royal family from attack by Irish terrorists. The next thing he knows, the Ryan clan has been targeted by the same terrorists, who invade his Maryland home. The film can't shed all of Clancy's lumbering prose, or his techno-dweeb fascination with spy satellites and the like. But no one is better than Ford at righteous heroism--and Sean Bean makes a suitably snakey villain. --Marshall Fine